Essays on Stokes

The healthcare system is currently undergoing a series of transformations that are affecting all the aspects of care. These transformations have fuelled the identification of the important role of nurses in healthcare. In the past, nurses have been sidelined as assistants to physicians, rather than partners in care with other health care professionals (The National Academies Press, 2010). A report by the IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed that if the nurses are allowed to practice to the full extent of their training and expertise, they could offer pertinent expertise needed to sustain the current changes in ...

Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Introduction Business management or being an entrepreneur is one of the interesting jobs but also challenging. Entrepreneurs or business managers face various challenges as they manage their business. Some of the challenges can include coming up with products/services that attract customers, executing different business objectives, recruiting and retention of the right employees and also maintaining a wide range of business laws and regulations. In most cases, entrepreneurs that are most successful in managing their lines of business have a conceptual knowledge in managing business functions. Therefore, it is important for an entrepreneur or business managers to take business management ...

1. Introduction: Concussion occurs from traumatic injury to the brain and results in a temporary disruption of brain function or loss/altered consciousness for a short period (Moser, 2012). Concussion is common in contact sports, where there is a collision between players. It is expected to have an adverse cumulative effect on the persons cognitive and mental functioning (Moser, 2012). With course of time, this could adversely affect once athletic career. Identifying incidence of concussion in a particular sport, will help to determine risk and initiate preventive measures. Rugby is a full body contact sports and there are high chances ...

The paper discusses Stokes Honda, a dealer of motorcycles. The paper gives a SWOT analysis of Stokes Honda. Additionally, it offers pricing positioning as well as distribution strategy of Stokes Honda. The SWOT analysis discusses the weak areas as well as highlights the strong aspects of the firm.

Strengths

The strengths of Stokes Honda are many. For example, the company handles a diversified product portfolio. Stokes Honda sells motorcycles and its parts. This makes the firm stable to technology disruptions as well as market cycles. Besides, Stokes Honda invests heavily in research and development. Such research enables the firm to ...

The movie “Birth of a nation” (1915) is an American movie directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by Harry Aitken and D. W. Griffith. This movie has totally changed the cinematograph. It has been adapted from the famous novel “The Clansman”, and was released in 1925. The movie is about two families living in two periods of time - the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The impact of this movie is very difficult to overestimate on all subsequent movies, as almost every first American film unwittingly adopted technical and stylistic nuances of the "Birth of a Nation". The ...

Literature Review

Abstract Innovations and modifications that produce cost reductions and enhance performance have driven the evolution of the classic solid rocket and the liquid bipropellant rocket into hybrid models that integrate the predominant solid and liquid model features into more sensical, more economical fabrications of design. The commercial spacecraft demands for aerospace propulsion have also evolved to include a market for environmentally sustainable hybrid rocket engines that has yet to fully mature to the Technology Readiness Level (TRL). Numerical modeling has been used as a tool to test the feasibility of new solid fuel types. ABS has been considered as ...

The 1979 Sale of Goods Act is the most comprehensive pieces of legislation on commercial law in the UK that governs, inter alia, contracts for the sale of goods, implied terms in sale of goods, rules governing the transfer and possession of property (goods) and also provides some of the remedies that purchasers (buyers) may have against sellers for defects in goods or otherwise (Dobson, Dobson & Stokes 2012, p. 10). This Act thus ensures the effectiveness of the legal relationship between businesses and customers, for it contains rules and regulations that seek to protect the rights of buyers and ...

Critical Assessment of an Intervention for Sustainability

Characteristic of the Place I’ve chosen Hong Kong as a site for this paper. Its total territory is around 1 108 square kilometers that is twice less than the territory of Tokyo or Moscow (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016). At the same time, more attention is paid to the region of Kowloon peninsula as the most densely populated area in Hong Kong (more than 7000 people per square kilometer) (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016). The Kowloon City is more specific site of Hong Kong for analysis in this paper. The chosen region differs by the high population density, ecological and ...

Abstract

This paper is about the investigation of Parkinson’s disease, and in particular is involved with the examination of its symptoms, stages, causes, prevalence, diagnosis and treatment, and social impacts. Finally, the paper analyzes and evaluates two ongoing on Parkinson’s disease researches, which are also examined in respect to their impact on Parkinson’s disease patients. Key words: Parkinson disease, Parkinson disease causes and impacts, Parkinson disease symptoms and prevalence, Parkinson disease diagnosis, and Parkinson disease ongoing research.

Idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressively evolving disease with main manifestations resting tremor, muscle stiffness, slow movement and loss ...

Today, it is estimated that more than twenty-six million animals are being used yearly in the United States for both scientific and commercial research, as they are used in the development of medical treatments, determining of toxic medicines and analyse how safe are products designed for people use among many others. According to Langley et al., “the issue with animal research has been in practice since 500 BC as those who agree with the issue testifying on how it has been of help in developing plenty life-saving medicines for both human beings and animals (270)”. According to the proposers ...

Biofeedback, according to Mayo Clinic Staff is the process by which one gains control over some of the involuntary body functions and this later translates to healing. It involves measurements of a person’s physiological and biomechanical aspects that are taken and then utilized in the treatment of various illnesses. These measurements include the cardiovascular system, respiratory, or neuromuscular aspects. One of the tests that are likely to be carried out is ultrasounds. These tests are mostly carried out immediately a patient checks into a health clinic having either an accident or health condition such as hypertension or cardiovascular ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

Introduction

Mishima Yukio is one of the most famous Japanese writers who is also famous for committing suicide, leaving plenty of unpublished novels, short stories and poetry behind. Her works are characterized by the increasing sensibility, attention to the details and symbols and are sometimes criticized for its homoerotic content. In some of the works Mishima Yukio wants to refresh and probably revive the memory about the traditional Japanese social system which is based on the imperial ruling.

Analysis of Confessions of Mask

The most prominent book of Mishima Yukio is called Confessions of Mask and it was written in nineteen ninety four and it ...

Abstract

The associated issues of copyright protection and digital rights management are pressing ones these days. Particularly for the music industry, there is a growing trend among consumers to download music illegally via torrents without giving a second thought to the ethics or legally of their actions. On the other hand, many have suggested that unreasonable laws and the length of time that copyrights last explain the many copyright violations we see today. This essay will examine the nature of copyright law and its original intended purpose in English common law, as well as how the founding fathers of the ...

Introduction

As a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association of America [NRA], it is my position to defend gun rights in America. The NRA is a non-profit that teaches and promotes gun safety and advocates for American gun rights. The audiences the NRA aims to address are Washington and voters. The NRA uses multiple channels to communicate. The organization publishes multiple magazines and is considered the most influential lobbying group in US politics. The NRA encourages its audience to encourage safe gun use in order to protect the second amendment right (Caffrey). The technological advancement in question is the ‘smart’ ...

Millions of elderly people in the New York have extensive health care needs and expenses, but many have limited incomes or savings to assist them cover the cost of care. Virtually all elderly New York residents have Medicare, the federal health insurance program for disabled and elderly Americans, to assist pay medical bills (Stokes, 2004). However, limits in the scope of benefits, coupled with financial obligations and problems for coverage, can lead to a serious financial burden (Zahra, 2004). Elderly persons with low incomes are particularly vulnerable to these problems because they are more likely to have health problems than ...